School: Gaduidhe Dubh (C.)
- Location:
- Gaddyduff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cáitlín Ní Mhiothagáin
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“A few days before the famine came, a man named Patrick Neil Roe Mc Laughlin was moulding the potatoes with a shovel and was finishing them up.”
A few days before the famine came, a man named Patrick Neil Roe Mc Laughlin was moulding the potatoes with a shovel and was finishing them up.
he saw a heavy black cloud in the sky and he watched to see where the heavy plump was going to fall. It stopped at Ractan a mountain. In place of rain he saw a plough and a swingle tree and a foot tree and it on fire. He went into the house and told his father that he saw a fire in the sky, his father told him that there would be a famine. In two days there was not a potato on earth to be got except skeedens (worthless potatoes) Next year any person who set those skeedens had a good crop.
- Collector
- Brigid M. Herkin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clehagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Paddy Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clehagh, Co. Donegal